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Balancing objects is part of visual magic. Many magicians try to make it clean and beautiful. M.O.Balance is a new approach to the effect of balance. Three very visual and simple effects.

Hand Balance: You make a card stand flat on your hand.

Angle Balance: The corner of a card balances on your index finger.

Balancing Cigarette: A very crazy and brain-breaking trick. You balance a card, and also balance a cigarette on the card.

After the trick, all items are handed out for examination.

1st edition 2020, length 9 min.

Note that the instructions are purely visual with some captions.

This easily constructed gimmick allows you to levitate small elongated objects on your finger. Ideal objects to levitate are pens, straws, spoons, chop sticks, and similar.

1st edition 2018, length 7 min 30 s

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese with English subtitles.

You borrow a coin and a pack of cigarettes from the audience. Ask a spectator to sign the coin. Then you slide the plastic wrapping partly off of the cigarette pack. With a quick gesture, the signed coin in your hand will penetrate the plastic wrapping of the cigarette pack! Purely technical and no gimmick used.

1st edition 2016, length 8 min.

Signed transposition that happens in your cap.

Imagine spectator signs a random selected card and places it into your cap. Just a shake and that signed card turns into a deck of cards and appears in your other hand.

1st edition 2017, length 11 min

Please note that the instructions are purely visual with some captions, but no spoken instructions.

This preparation allows you to literally throw a coin, or other small objects, into a closed bottle. Bottle is gimmicked.

1st edition 2018, length 11 min 33 s.

Three cards are put face down on the table. Put three blank cards over the first card and the blank cards all change into the same card they were put on. Repeat this with the other two cards. The cards always magically change their faces. At the end, the faces change again and the entire deck is blank.

1st edition 2024, video 5:09.

This video is in Vietnamese. There are no English subtitles and there is no English translation, but you can visually see how the effect works.

An impossible penetration of a coin through a water bottle. Requires special coin and gimmick.

1st edition 2016, length 3min

This is a very deceptive technique. It allows you to keep a break while doing a pressure fan.

runtime: 2min 13s

A new permanent tactile marking method, which is easier to feel and less visually noticeable compared to a punch.

Boss work is a marking system that you read by touch, and is designed primarily for use with the punch deal. It is easy to put in and the items required are not too expensive. When compared to the punch, boss work is much easier to feel and more durable. The markings are almost impossible to see on the backs of the cards, and there is nothing to see on the fronts. This video will take you through putting in the work, teaching you the best way to mark the cards, and also showing...

This is a wonderful version of the classic matrix effect - four coins and four cards. Each coin starts under one card in 4 different places. Eventually all coins assemble magically one by one under one card. The description includes a beautiful display move which allows you to show a card in one hand while you hide a coin in the same.

length 5 min

This is a silent film produced by Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio. It features Marconick performing some of his feature items with silks and rope. Marconick was primarily known for his creative work with silks. His vanish of silks from a cage ball is very pretty.

• Silk to cane
• Several silks vanish from a cage ball (Silken Bombshell, see Gen Volume 21 page 322)
• Cup of water from silk
• Water from paper cone to glass
• Selected card appears knotted on rope
• Rope through neck
• Rope and ring
• Silk production from larger silk
• Silk to rope
• Another silk production where the silks change how they are knotted...

Developed by Ed Marlo, it is a well-covered method to palm one or several cards from the bottom into a left-hand magician's palm.

runtime: 1min 53s

Once you have a break you want to handle and display the deck such that it appears to be impossible to hold a break. Here is one sequence of bends and riffles developed by Ed Marlo and published in his Card Control Series from the 1950s.

runtime: 53s

This is a very subtle way to place a key card. It is essentially self-working and wonderfully deceptive.

runtime: 1min 1s

This multiple shift is by Ed Marlo. It operates in two phases where in the first phase you bring the cards together that were inserted in different positions in the deck. And in the second phase, you bring these cards to the top.

runtime: 1min 50s

This employs the Biddle move to switch out a packet of cards while showing them one at a time.

runtime: 1 min 49 s

By simply dropping and turning a deck, you change the face card twice.

runtime: 2min 16s

The deck is shuffled. Spectator cuts off a small packet and sets it aside. The performer selects one card from the remaining cards. It turns out that this is the mate card to the card on the bottom of the spectator cut packet. The same procedure is repeated and again the performer is able to pick the mate card. In ever more impossible ways the spectator selects cards which turn out to be located next to their mates.

This routine was first published in Faro Control Miracles. It uses the stay stack principle.

runtime: 16min 52s...

A card is chosen and signed and lost in the deck. The card travels repeatedly to the performers pocket in ever cleaner and more unbelievable fashion.

runtime: 4min 12s

A deck is riffle shuffled. Spectator cuts off a portion and performer can tell by the weight of the packet how many cards were cut. Performer quickly glances through the deck. Spectator calls out a number and performer knows immediately the card at that position in the deck. Then a poker hand is dealt with the magician dealing himself a straight flush. And the routine ends with a game of bridge where the performer receives all 13 spades, the best hand you can have in a game of bridge.

This is a routine Ed Marlo published in the 1940s in his book Spades - that is where the name of the routine comes...

Here you learn how to replace a card you hold out in Tenkai palm on the top of the deck.

runtime: 49s

This technique is an application of the Vernon Push Off and allows you to table a double.

runtime: 36s

This is a move Ackerman developed himself. While riffle shuffling you palm the bottom card into a gambler's flat palm using a Kelly-type movement.

runtime: 1min 27s

Mathematical Fooler is in fact an impossible location effect. It really is a fooler. The principle appears as already known but will succeed in deceiving even fellow magicians.

First of all, it is possible to proceed with a borrowed deck, a real selling point. The magician borrows a deck. He looks through the deck with faces up and inquires if it is a full deck. Then he asks the spectator to cut a third of the deck and count how many cards he has in his hand. It will certainly have a two-digit number. The spectator adds the two digits together and looks at the card that corresponds to that...